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strain to ActionImprove nations votinging but leave control to localsAuthor UnknownSUMMARY A Call to Action is an article from the Houston Chronicle on Thursday, February 20, 2001 informing the nation on the debatable issue of the nations ballots system. The article begins with the announcement of next months nosecount Bureau release of the populations data. This means that all the voting boundaries are going to be redrawn and reconfigured. It continues to talk about the amazingly close and controversial presidential election on November 7th. Difficulties erupted all over the state of Florida and throughout the United States in which the reliability and accuracy of the balloting system is questioned. Fortunately, because of the controversial ballots and ballot systems there have been numerous groups and committees organized to study and improve our out of date voting system. It says that several people in Congress are on the job(p) on multiple bills being created to establish na tion wide standards for ballot-counting systems. The article states, One U.S. House lawmaker, Beaumont Democrat Nick Lampson, wants national standards for voting machines and poll closing curtain times. The beginning agrees with Lampson in that the voting machines have multiple flaws, one being the problematic punch card ballots. But he also thinks that the press would accident a fit if there was a national closing time at the polls just for the sake of avoiding early winning announcements. The National acquaintance of Secretaries of States task force on election standards suggests leaving the enforcement issue to locals but have the giving medication pay for voting machines. They also exhort more voter education, improved training for poll workers and maintaining up-to-date voter rolls. In the end the author feels that the communities should take on the responsibilities for reformation instead of an all-in-one government plan. He closes by reminding the reader that the nation s President is elected through the Electoral College and the communities should supervise the voting procedure.OPINION I agree with the authors view on improving the voting system. I believe something needs to be done at least by the next election. In the election of 2000, Florida happened to be the center of the maelstrom. I find it hard to believe that any state that has had problems in the past with voting irregularities would continue to use the equivalent flawed ballot system. Florida continues using a system year after year that allows people to vote twice on one ballot for the equal political office, or that makes the results questionable because the paper might not be punched through enough for the machines to compute the votes?